However, I believe that the butt of her jokes was not the left, but the social conservatives whose support of the Administration is unneeded and unwanted. They, and not the liberals, are the ones who are most likely to be offended. The Internet makes it difficult to hide the remarks of public figures because the gatekeepers of the three networks and the prestige newspapers are less effective than 20 or even 10 years ago. The Bush Administration officials could easily guess how these remarks would play with a portion of its base. They apparently did not care, for their goal was to reach out to the so-called center.
"These remarks" played well with everyone but the "Panties in a bunch for Jesus"* crowd, led by the insufferable Lou Sheldon. (*Attribution of the moniker to Diddle E. Squat)
His job is sitting around, waiting to be offended so he can fire off blast emails to arouse with righteous anger those who sit around waiting for Lou's emails.
Some "Christians" go out of their way to confirm that believers are humorless slugs.
I guess we will just have to respectfully agree to disagree.
I don't believe the left is capable of being offended and are just feigning it to fuel their divide and conquer strategy. The left will use the disapproval of some social conservatives to their benefit in a two-fold manner. It allows them to claim to be "just as moral and upstanding" as conservatives and to initiate cat-fights such as have occurred on these threads where we appear to be eating our own.
I am truly sorry to see they have been succeeding.